Equivalent evaporation (E):
- It is the amount of water evaporated from feed water at and formed into dry saturated steam at at normal atmospheric pressure.
- Let,
total heat required to evaporate feed water,
enthalpy of feed water
enthalpy of steam,
mass of water actually evaporated or steam produced
- Then total heat required to evaporate the water,
Now if the water is already at boiling temperature then at , it requires amount of latent heat to convert it to dry saturated steam.
So mathematically, equivalent evaporation from and at can be written as,
- Factor of evaporation ( f ):
Factor of evaporation is given by,